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198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Crucial Transition

There's a field of sense that we have that if you pack on enough cortex, layers and layers and layers of cortex, or neural networks. at some point, like in the sydney harris cartoon that you've used, that i've used. And then a miracle happens. It it feels like like something like magic happens if you just get enough cortical activity going. I'm assuming that's an incorrectway to think about it. The best case that has ever been made along these lines was made by dogles hos ter in godo eshebach,. That enormous volume of his from the seventies. People who think we do are appealing at some level to some form of

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